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Exponare is an out-of-the-box solution developed on MapInfo’s
Enterprise platform. It combines the power of MapInfo’s proven
location based technology with the flexibility of the Microsoft®
.NET framework and Web Services.
MapInfo® Exponare™ is designed to enable users to connect
to the many sources of corporate data, to discover the full extent
of their information resource and to deliver the high quality of
service demanded by today’s citizens and customers.
Exponare is an integrated suite of applications, with a strong
emphasis on integration, centralised management and ease of use.
Exponare provides the portal to an organisation’s corporate
data, both spatial and non-spatial, allowing users to leverage their
corporate information
resource as never before – and to do it with a minimum of down
time involved in implementation.
The Exponare product suite consists of a number of modules designed
to work seamlessly with each other and act as an integrated suite.
Sharing a common code base, each module has a consistent look and
feel and is set up with a common configuration tool. The first two
modules of the Exponare suite are Enquiry and Public.
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Government
- How can I make services more accessible to my citizens?
- How can I better manage the assets of my county/borough/district?
- How can I make my agency’s work more accessible and visible
to the public?
- How can I make it easier for citizens to find out where to go
for different services?
- How can I share information within my own organisation and other
agencies and departments?
- Where are critical power or gas lines/bridges/landmarks etc?
- Where are the closest hospitals, schools, fire stations, etc?
Telecommunications
- How can I prequalify customers for different levels of service?
- How can I tell if a customer qualifies for high-speed internet
access in my network?
- How can I show my customers over the internet whether they are
in a broadband area?
- Where should I build out my network infrastructure?
- Where can I target my efforts to generate more subscribers?
Financial services
- Where should I expand my ATM or branch network to?
- Where are my most profitable branches/services?
- Where am I vulnerable to competition?
- Where are my most profitable customers and what types of products
are they purchasing?
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Insurance
- How can I determine potential risks around a
location/property/policy?
- How can I pinpoint a policy on the map?
- How can I determine if a location (property) is subject to
flood/hurricane/tornadoes/wind or earthquake?
- How can my customers find the closest agent or authorised repair
facility?
- How can my customers find the closest dentist/doctor?
Retail
- Where are my best customers?
- Are my best customers within 3 miles of a particular type of
store?
- How can I show my customers online where my store locations
are?
- How do I enable my customers to find a store that sells a certain
product?
- Who are my best sales people?
- What is my best sales area for a particular new product?
- Where are my customers who have purchased a specific product
in the last year?
- Which areas are my sales team working in
this week?
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Ease of use
Exponare has been specifically designed to be user friendly and
intuitive with modules catering for a wide range of users from technical
specialists to the general public. Standard Windows development
methodologies have been employed to incorporate familiar user interface
components such as drag and drop, dropdown lists, checkboxes and
navigation trees.
Configurable
The configuration tool provides administrators with
complete control over the user interface, functionality, data sets,
queries and print templates. Configuration is managed to group or
individual user level and controlled by password login access.
Strong data integration
Exponare Enquiry includes comprehensive data binding capabilities,
allowing users to query data stored in MapInfo tables, non-spatial
databases (such as Microsoft Access and SQL Server), and spatial
databases (such as Oracle Spatial and SpatialWare for SQL Server).
Interoperability
The first level of integration Exponare provides with other applications
and databases is via data binding, which allows organisations to
access corporate data. A second level of integration can be achieved
at the application level by linking Exponare clients to third party
applications. Links to third party applications can be created through
custom development within the Exponare architecture. This
combination of data level and application level integration makes
Exponare the key to full utilisation of an organisation’s information
resource.
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Central management
The Enquiry and Public modules are managed from a central server
so there is no need to visit individual work stations to install
or upgrade the software. This drastically reduces time, effort and
therefore the cost of deploying the product.
Web services
Enquiry and Public are web service clients that distribute
the functionality of the Exponare Server. The power of web services
is that virtually any application on the network can act as an Exponare
client and exploit the desired server based functions. This web
services approach reduces duplication of effort by making truly
distributed use of the spatial functions and configuration ability
of the Exponare suite.
Out-of-the-box
All Exponare modules provide an out-of-the-box installation, which
means no code development is required to implement the application,
thereby ensuring quicker implementation timeframes and a faster
return on investment.
Standards based
Consistent with MapInfo’s strong conformance to standards,
Exponare also adheres to IT industry and geospatial standards including
SOAP, WSDL and .NET to ensure interoperability with other systems.
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Enquiry provides internal access to corporate information and
allows users to perform queries, generate printed maps, reports
and mail merges, and has a strong emphasis on integration with external
applications.
- Configurable user interface and functionality
- Data binding: multiple objects to multiple databases
- Queries
- Red-lining
- Combined legend & layer control
- Overview map
- Automated Mail Merge: Word & HTML
- Application Link Out
- Named views
- Template printing
- Thematics
- Favourites
- Optional user login with password
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Public provides easy-to-use
browser based access for the
non-technical user.
- Browser Based Public Access
- Fast & Easy to use
- Integration into existing web sites
- Customisable user interface (HTML)
- Standard mapping tools: zoom, pan, selection etc
- Queries
- Named views
- Data binding: multiple objects to multiple databases
- Template printing
- Thematics
- Combined legend & layer control
- Overview map
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